Mental health
AMHCC User Manual
This user manual provides background to the development of the Australian Mental Health Care Classification (AMHCC) Version 1.0. It also explains the structure, data elements and collection protocols, reporting requirements, and how the data is grouped.Due to no structu...
Mental Health Phase of Care Guide
This document provides information for clinicians to enable them to assess phases accurately when applying the mental health phase of care concept.
Mental Health Phase of Care Clinical Refinement Testing Project – Final Report
The Mental Health Phase of Care (MHPoC) Clinical Refinement Testing Project aimed to determine whether refinements to the MHPoC recommended as part of the 2017 Clinical Refinement Project improved the reliability of how MHPoC definitions are applied by clinicians. This...
Mental Health Phase of Care Clinical Refinement Project Final Report
Following the completion of the 2016 Inter-Rater Reliability (IRR) study to test the consistency of clinician application of the mental health phase of care, the poor to fair reliability outcome led to the commencement of the refinement project. The project aims to iden...
Australian Mental Health Care Classification Pricing Feasibility Report 2020–21
The Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) has developed the Australian Mental Health Care Classification Pricing Feasibility Report 2020–21 to provide an overview of the process undertaken by IHPA to shadow price admitted mental health services using the Austral...
Mental health phase of care Inter-rater reliability (IRR) study - Final report
The Inter-rater reliability study final report was approved by the Pricing Authority in April 2017. The primary aims of the study were to test the inter-rater reliability of the mental health phase of care instrument, gather information about the clinicians' views of th...